Miller accused Tivey of false arrest and assault for attacking him with a blackjack without provocation while Miller was attempting to help someone injured in an automobile accident near his service station.

The defense contended Miller tried to interfere with Tivey’s investigation of the accident.

In 1960 (50 Years Ago)

Stanley A. Werner, a Bremerton engineer, is scheduled to be the first paying passenger this afternoon when Sea-Tac Airways inaugurates helicopter service between Bremerton and Seattle-Tacoma airport. The helicopter will leave from the Evergreen Park helipad at 4:30 p.m.

Rates have been set at $7.50 between Bremerton and downtown Seattle and $9.50 between here and the airport.

With their new hours going into effect today at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, about 600 design division employees will join the rest of the shipyard’s dayshift employees in working from 7:40 a.m. to 4:20 p.m.

It will be the first time in seven years all dayshift employees have worked the same hours.

The shift from previous hours of 7:10 to 3:40 will take place over the protest of Local 12 of the American Federation of Technical Engineers.

In 1985 (25 Years Ago)

Rodney Walter is not a “dilrod.” Make that perfectly clear.

Unfortunately, he was identified as one in The Sun. The 19-year-old high school swimming star was among those who lined up all night Friday outside Bremerton’s Bay Records and Cassettes to buy tickets for Prince’s Tacoma concert.

Someone in line that night set off the store’s burglar alarm. Someone else in line called that person a “dilrod,” and a Sun reporter believed the reference was to Walter.

It wasn’t. But Walter good-naturedly took a lot of ribbing from friends, who said they didn’t know what a “dilrod” was but assumed it wasn’t flattering.

And fortunately, Walter ended up with good Prince tickets.

In 2000 (10 Years Ago)

Another nonnuclear surface ship is coming to PSNS, and this time shipyard employees will be doing about half the work.

The destroyer USS Paul F. Foster, based at Naval Station Everett, will be drydocked at PSNS from late February through late April.